Portrait Painting of Toby

I am going to produce portrait painting of him and have chosen two poses to explore. The first pose below is from mobile phone photo whose resolution does not give me enough detail to be sure Toby looks accurately like the dog that he is! I have tried to compensate by using other photos of him too.

In light of the above I am also using a photo which I took of Toby recently for the second pose.

These are preliminary sketches to hopefully help us make a decision very soon.